A memorable Meet up !

“I am so done ! I am 25 and pregnant , wow just wow ! “ I grumbled during my first pregnancy . I was pregnant for 8 months. I was happy that I was going to be a mom but the sudden change in everything had me all tied up.

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I was literally fat at the center and found it hard to manage even a total of 4 tasks on my own. Plus the pain would always come back.  All of my friends who had studied college with me and most of my childhood friends were unmarried, single and happy ! Well atleast that’s what I thought until I happened to meet them one rainy day.
My mom in law wouldn’t let me go out during my last months of pregnancy , that too added up on my frustrations. Imagine sitting at home watching tv ,eating and some more eating and not being able to go out to watch a movie or shop or even for a walk ! Whatever exercise had to be done within the house or in the garden. As this was my first child everything was alien and it was tough getting used to such situations and one fine day the volcano erupted and I broke rules wore a maxi dress along with my favorite flats and went shopping all by myself. Thanks to hubby he was kind enough to drop me (But he made me promise to reach home before my sweet mom in law would be back home from some function she had gone to).
As I walked past the bustling streets to the shopping mall I suddenly did not want to shop and instead of heading to the mall I caught a taxi and went straight to a place where me and my friends would enjoy during our college days. It was a resort but a smaller version and it took the taxi wala an hour to reach there.Surprisingly all of the tension from the past few months started leaving my shoulders and I felt way relaxed than I had felt in the past few years. There was a different kind of happiness in living the olden days again. The best part was when I reached there and fate had it as I was reunited with two of my bestest friends from college !

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What a day it was , a memorable one ! We had coffee and shakes and cupcakes . Rejoicing and talking about our lives. My friends were all over me and awwing when I told them about my loving husband and the new joy which would be soon joining us. They discussed how they had been tied up with their jobs and had never time for a man but were stunned by the way things I had managed. That’s when I knew I was so lucky to be what I was and to have such limitless joy in my life. Their enthusiasm in wanting to know how I managed everything , their awe at my family and how I multi tasked put my life into the limelight. That day I enjoyed and felt like a happy kid.And finally my friends told me how they wished we had been #together and in touch and we made promises to stay in touch from then and there ! One of my friends had bought a new car in her own salary and we celebrated and cheered and she even gave us tips on buying and choosing a car , and the best she dropped me home safe and happy, oh yes I was so happy that day , from that day I felt a change I had never felt before !It was a day I always #LookUp to when I feel down :) 

A healthy child , healthy home !

It is often said that raising a child is the hardest, most responsible and often the most satisfying task a parent can face. 
A persons knowledge of how to bring up their children usually comes from their surroundings and their own upbringing. This may result in patterns from the parent's own social experiences being repeated and passed on to their children.

 

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“Our children are our happiness” is what my mom used to tell her friends when I was in school.
You too must’ve heard this more often than you can admit , a parent always considers her happy kids their reason behind their healthy and happy home.
 
my parents where always health-conscious parents , they did everything  to compete against any number of unhealthy temptations and made sure we did not hook up to bad habits like smoking and intake of any other harmful substance.
My parents always believed that if a child is healthy and happy , it automatically makes the home a healthy home.They abided by five rules for healthy eating:

• No to fast food . They were strictly against it. And I am so very thankful to them for this gift of health and good habits they instilled in me.
• Intake of Dabur Chyawanprash ( Dabur Chyawanprash is a time-tested, age-old formulation has a number of herbs like Amla, known to be one of the best antioxidants, Giloy (Guduchi))regularly. Growing up is hard work, and my parents where very much aware of this , child has a special set of requirements to get the job done..They would tell me you are growing and developing you must eat dabur so all your body parts from your brain to your  bones grow strong.
• They involved is in eating healthy fruits and veggies .
• Physical activity a part of our daily lives
• They Kept it simple.

-My mom and dad played a key role in our food choices and the behaviors I and my siblings picked up as we grew older.
-They made sure that we followed a set of important things so we could grow up to safe, happy and healthy. They made sure we had a healthy lifestyle and the set of rules included:
- They always made our food fun, my mom would innovate different types of foods with healthy nutritious food.
- they made sure we never skipped our dinner as dinner was a very important meal for our immune system.
-They made us eat different foods every day, they believed variety is the recipe for health, which I belief in too.
-we had fruits with every meal
- they made us stay active in all our holidays

This post is part of Indibloggers Happy hours ‘Healthy child is a happy home’ campaign by Dabur Chyawanprash.